/**
 * BibSonomy Search - Helper classes for search modules.
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2006 - 2016 Knowledge & Data Engineering Group,
 *                               University of Kassel, Germany
 *                               http://www.kde.cs.uni-kassel.de/
 *                           Data Mining and Information Retrieval Group,
 *                               University of Würzburg, Germany
 *                               http://www.is.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.de/en/dmir/
 *                           L3S Research Center,
 *                               Leibniz University Hannover, Germany
 *                               http://www.l3s.de/
 *
 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
 * it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by
 * the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
 * (at your option) any later version.
 *
 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
 * GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
 *
 * You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
 * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
 */
package org.bibsonomy.search.util;

/**
 * the generic converter interface
 * @param <S> the source
 * @param <T> the target
 * @param <O> the option
 */
public interface Converter<S, T, O> {

	/**
	 * convert the our model to the model required by the resource search
	 * @param source
	 * @return the converted model
	 */
	T convert(final S source);

	/**
	 *
	 * @param source
	 * @param options the options to convert this object
	 * @return the model object
	 */
	public S convert(final T source, final O options);
}
